We met Chef Jimmy several years ago at the Fiery Foods Show out in New Mexico, but haven’t seen him since. Sounds like he’s brewing up some truly fiery fare in his Chicago-land restaurants. Check out this blurb from the DailyHerald.com:

That’s one hot pepper: Heaven on Seven restaurant chain chef/owner Jimmy Bannos has been devising recipes for what is deemed to be the world’s hottest chili pepper to incorporate in the restaurant menu.

The Bhut Jolokia chili pepper originates in India and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the hottest chili pepper on record.

Eating the pepper has been likened by some to breathing in flames.

Bannos is teaming with farmers in India and California to grow the peppers specifically for the Heaven on Seven restaurants.

Heaven on Seven has locations in Chicago (111 N. Wabash and 600 N. Michigan) and Naperville (224 S. Main St.). For information, visit www.heavenonseven.com.

Besides being a chef and hot sauce purveyor (see that wall behind him in the picture?), he also happens to have a cookbook he co-authored entitled: The Heaven on Seven Cookbook: Where It’s Mardis Gras All the Time! We hate trying to cook Cajun food, but love eating it…so we may have to find our way to a Heaven on Seven the next time we make it up to Chicago.

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